Jeffrey Grimm gets grant to involve undergrads in biomedical research

Jeffrey Grimm, a professor of psychology at Western Washington University, has received grant funding from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (one of the National Institutes of Health) to continue his studies on sucrose craving in rats. Grimm and his team will continue their studies for the project "Incubation of craving: Abstinence and Environmental Enrichment-mediated Molecular Adaptations" on how sucrose craving increases over a period of forced abstinence and how exposure of the rats to environmental enrichment alters sucrose craving. The studies will incorporate measures of molecular changes in the brains of these animals that accompany their craving behavior. This R15 grant was written and funded to encourage the involvement of undergraduates in biomedical research. The three-year grant is for $386,731.